Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Cocoa strike may hit chocolate supply
The Toronto Star ^ | Oct. 16, 2006 | PAULINE BAX

Posted on 10/16/2006 12:05:37 PM PDT by fanfan

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Cocoa farmers across Ivory Coast went on strike Monday, holding back their crops to protest low retail prices and high export taxes in a move that could affect the global chocolate industry.

The West African country is the world's top grower of cocoa beans, producing 40 per cent of global output each year, according to government statistics, despite being split following a civil war.

---------------------------------

Read more at link.

(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS:
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100101-116 next last
To: fanfan

No problem.......I can quite anytime.


61 posted on 10/16/2006 12:29:02 PM PDT by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Centurion2000

I'm just WAITING for the poster to come on and tell us how they don't LIKE CHOCOLATE! I never trust those people.


62 posted on 10/16/2006 12:29:25 PM PDT by bonfire
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies]

To: Bahbah

This is my pet peeve. You say you're a chocoholic. Apparently, this word, like similar made-up words indicating addiction to something, is derived from 'alcoholic'.

The alcoholic is a person who is physically addicted to alcohol. Alcohol-ic. The -ic is tacked onto the end of trhe name of the substance the person is addcted to.

Therefore, a person who is addicted to chololate should be called a chocolatic, not a chocoholic.

There, I feel better now.


63 posted on 10/16/2006 12:30:36 PM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: fanfan

No problem.......I can quit anytime.


64 posted on 10/16/2006 12:31:37 PM PDT by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CajunConservative

I was thinking the same thing.....
A battle cruiser full of PMS'ing/Menopausal wimmen sailing east.

Scarier than the Barbary Pirates and way more cranky.


65 posted on 10/16/2006 12:32:13 PM PDT by najida (The internet is for kids grown up-- Where else could you have 10,000 imaginary friends?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies]

To: fanfan; Monkey Face; Millee; Tax-chick
Oh dear, and me just out of the shower!


66 posted on 10/16/2006 12:32:13 PM PDT by Lady Jag (I dreamed I surfed all day in my monthly donor wonder bra [https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate])
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: savedbygrace

LOL. You feel better and I feel so...informed :)


67 posted on 10/16/2006 12:32:39 PM PDT by Bahbah (Shalit, Goldwasser and Regev, we are praying for you)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 63 | View Replies]

To: bonfire
I'm just WAITING for the poster to come on and tell us how they don't LIKE CHOCOLATE! I never trust those people.

That's some mighty blatant prejudice you got going on there. It's not just chocolate, I don't care for most sweets.
68 posted on 10/16/2006 12:32:52 PM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 62 | View Replies]

To: fanfan
That's white chocolate.

The guys he's working on looks more of a milk chocolate ..... and this guy better run for his life :)

Are chocolate mayors edible?


69 posted on 10/16/2006 12:33:37 PM PDT by Centurion2000 ("Be polite and courteous, but have a plan to KILL everybody you meet.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 59 | View Replies]

To: cripplecreek

ding ding ding!

I know one of "you" would show up! :)


70 posted on 10/16/2006 12:33:41 PM PDT by bonfire
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 68 | View Replies]

To: Lady Jag

that has to be the most edible woman I've ever seen.


71 posted on 10/16/2006 12:34:14 PM PDT by Centurion2000 ("Be polite and courteous, but have a plan to KILL everybody you meet.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 66 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator

LOL!!!!!!


72 posted on 10/16/2006 12:34:38 PM PDT by skr (We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.-- Ronald Reagan)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: bonfire

I can be bought off with green apple Jolly Ranchers.


73 posted on 10/16/2006 12:35:08 PM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 70 | View Replies]

To: Lady Jag

Will you marry me?


74 posted on 10/16/2006 12:35:14 PM PDT by null and void ("It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret."--Jackie Joyner-Kersee)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 66 | View Replies]

To: savedbygrace
"chocolatic"

Sounds way too much like those chocolate squares I mistakenly ate when younger. Didn't realize that a whole lot of people made the same mistake until I got older and mentioned it in passing...

75 posted on 10/16/2006 12:35:55 PM PDT by Post-Neolithic
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 63 | View Replies]

To: cripplecreek

And there you have it! egads!!


76 posted on 10/16/2006 12:36:00 PM PDT by bonfire
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: fanfan

Well I'm climbing in my Abrhams Tank with my rifles and scopes and ammo....

You just don't know what a man will do without his 'cocoa' and I'm not about to find out....


77 posted on 10/16/2006 12:36:22 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 (My ? to libs: "Do they ever shut up on your planet?" "Grow your own DOPE: Plant a LIB!")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cripplecreek

Of course you can. They are just bourbon whiskey in little green nuggets.


78 posted on 10/16/2006 12:39:11 PM PDT by Rte66
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: Post-Neolithic

"Mentioned it in passing"? Egad.


79 posted on 10/16/2006 12:41:14 PM PDT by Rte66
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 75 | View Replies]

To: savedbygrace

And yet, everyone knows exactly what we're talking about when we say "chocoholic" or "shopaholic."

On the other hand, some have interpreted an alcoholic as an "Alcoaholic" who wears a great deal of tin foil.


80 posted on 10/16/2006 12:44:49 PM PDT by Rte66
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 63 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100101-116 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson